John Thompson wrote:
> On 2004-11-03, damon <> wrote:
>
>
>>It appears that my sh is actually just a link to /bin/bash. Altering
>>permissions has not made any difference. Must I install sh?
>
>
> No; bash *IS* sh, for all practical purposes. When invoked as "sh" instead
> of "bash" it restricts itself to behaving like sh.
>
> Now, how are you trying to run the installer? Are you doing something
> like "./firefox-installer.sh" or are you explicitly telling sh to run it,
> e.g. "sh ./firefox-installer.sh"?
>

It appears that you're trying to run the installer with the working
directory as the CDROM. This isn't going to work, since the CDROM is
read-only and the installer has to be able to write into the working
directory. Try "cd /tmp" and then run the installer from there: "sh
/cdrom/[path_to_installer]/firefox-installer

I've seen errors similar to this one on RH EL4 when I try to run a shell script from /tmp. There seems to be some sort of security measure preventing exec from doing this. After moving the script to my homedir, it ran fine.

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